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Objective 10.02
Identify Military, Political, and Diplomatic Turning Points of WWII and
determine their significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning Warfare, Mechanized Warfare, Tanks, Planes, Armored Cars, Trucks, German war strategy in taking over Poland and France
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Battle of Britain
Air war over Britain between the German Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force, Great Britain has an advantage with the development of Radar
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Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941; Japanese bomb US Battleships in Hawaii leading to US entry into WWII.
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Chester Nimitz
Commander of US forces in the Pacific theater of WWII
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Stalingrad
Turning point in the war in Europe, Joseph Stalin ordered his troops to fight to the death, Hitler refused to allow his troops to retreat, USSR defeated the Germans and took approximately 100,000 prisoners
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D-Day (Operation Overlord)
June 6th, 1944, Liberation of France begins, landing on the beaches of Normandy
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George Patton
General in charge of the 3rd Army tank division, known for personal battles with British General Bernard Montgomery, Assassinated in London at the end of WWII
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Battle of the Bulge
Last German Offensive of WWII, occurred in December of 1944, Attempt to push the Allies out of France
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Airdrops
Supplies dropped to troops in remote areas
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Newsreels
Films released to the American Public to document WWII
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Posters
Propaganda; encouraged Americans to support the war by buying bonds, rationing, and working hard.
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Battle of Midway
Island in the Pacific Ocean, Battle became the turning point in the war as the US established Naval superiority in the Pacific
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Douglas MacArthur
Japanese Surrender“I Shall Return”
Philippines
Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
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Island Hopping
Strategy of the US in the pacific of moving from one island to another on the way to Japan
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Iwo Jima
Sulfur Island in the Pacific, defended to the death by 20,000 Japanese, Marine Memorial
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Okinawa
150,000 Japanese casualties, 72,000 American casualties, Kamikazes, showed that Japan would be very difficult to defeat because they would not surrender even when defeated
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Allied ConferencesWartime conferences between the Allies to determine strategy
Casablanca Tehran
Yalta Potsdam
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VE Day, VJ DayVictory in Japan
Victory in Europe
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Manhattan Project
Established to develop Atomic Technology, headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Openheimer
Leader of the Manhattan Project
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Holocaust
Racial purification of Germany and countries that Germany controlled during WWII, Concentration Camps
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Nuremberg Trials
Trial of Nazi commanders of War crimes in connection with the Holocaust